[Coco] The CoCo outside of the U.S.

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Thanks Torsten. That's a cool picture. We would like to use it but need to know who owns the rights so we can get permission to use it.

On Apr 15, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Torsten Dittel <OS-9 at TRS-80.CC> wrote:

> Boisy,
> 
> your post reminds me that I promised some pictures long time ago, but my 
> collection is still boxed (family and job keep me busy...).
> 
> However, let me summarize some things I remember:
> 
> In Europe, we had "Tandy Computer Stores" (selling TRS-80 items, but not 
> everything found in the US-Catalogs) and Tandy stores (selling the "toys", 
> Realistic stuff etc.), at least in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands 
> (don't know for sure about France and the UK, but I assume as well).
> 
> Any CoCo version has been sold as 240V 50Hz PAL version beside the CoCo3 
> (that was only available in Australia), that means silver CoCo1 (all 
> boards), CoCo1B (the big white case), CoCo2 and CoCo2B (TANDY logo, 
> lowercase VDG - however the latter were hard to find because Tandy closed 
> the Computer shops at the time they came out). All types of Multipak 
> Interfaces were available with 240V 50Hz and most CoCo1/2 ROM Paks, 
> joysticks, mice etc. as well as all types of disk controllers, floppy 
> drives and printers.
> 
> I have seen all the manuals (Color BASIC, Extendend Color BASIC, Disk BASIC 
> etc.) in German, English, Dutch and French.
> 
> PAL versions were different between the countries (see a previous post of 
> mine regarding that topic, I guess it's available at CoCopedia too).
> 
> The PAL CoCos I've seen were made in the US (early models) and Korea (CoCo2 
> & 2B). Would have to look at the French models to see were they come from 
> (they were possibly made in France - they had a special RGB board and an 
> AZERTY keyboard. That's what happened with the RGB MC-10 as well because 
> foreign computers were banned from import as far as I know - at least they 
> couldn't be bought by public schools during an IT educational program run 
> by the French government in these times) 
> 
> Another Tandy licensed CoCo2 clone was called "Misedo 85" and made by 
> Montex Ivangrad (Berane) in Montenegro (former Yugoslavia):
> 
> http://pc.pcpress.rs/pcmuzej/images/galerija/misedo85_big.jpg
> 
> If you need proves for some of the information above, I might be able to 
> provide more internet findings and some pictures I already made (will not 
> promise again I can take new pictures in time...).
> 
> Regards,
> Torsten
> 
> 
> 
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